La Silla Observatory. View of the La Silla Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile. This site is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

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La Silla Observatory. View of the La Silla Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile. This site is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). At left is ESO's telescope, which includes the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). La Silla was ESO's first observing site and is still one of the leading observatories in the southern hemisphere.

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